Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic, where his work has fundamentally shaped public understanding of biology, ecology, and the hidden complexity of life. Born in Malaysia and raised in Britain, Yong has spent his career finding the stories inside science that change how people see themselves and […]
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles for over thirty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with three—including How to Change […]
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad in the pages […]
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Williams has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She has testified before Congress […]
Ferris Jabr
Ferris Jabr is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Becoming Earth won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Oregon Book Award, with reviewers describing it as an “electrifying” and […]
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), specializing in integral ecology, environmental humanities, religion and ecology, integral theories and philosophies, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, archetypal cosmology, Romanticism and German Idealism. Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in […]
Kristin Neff
Dr. Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research. Dr. Neff received her bachelor’s from the University of Los Angeles in communication studies and her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in moral development, followed by two years of postdoctoral study at the University of Denver researching self-concept development. During her last year […]
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A […]
Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr is an award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, interspiritual teacher, and certified bereavement counselor who gives talks, retreats, and workshops on the teachings of the mystics, the wisdom of the feminine, and contemplative practice, rooted in the transformational power of grief and loss. As a teenager, Mirabai lived at the Lama Foundation, an intentional […]
Priya Parker
Priya Parker is a facilitator, strategic advisor, and acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She is also the host of the New York Times podcast Together […]
Francis Weller
Francis Weller’s work explores the intersection of grief, trauma, and initiation in contemporary culture. Drawing from his experience leading the Men of Spirit initiation process and studying indigenous wisdom traditions, Weller illuminates how modern society has lost the essential “movements that made us human”—ancient skills like flintknapping, fire-making, tracking, and communal ritual that shaped our […]
Tara Brach
Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world—creating a distinctive voice in Western Buddhism that offers a wise and caring approach to freeing ourselves and society from suffering. As an undergraduate at Clark University, she pursued a double major […]
Duane Elgin
Duane Elgin is co-founder of Great Transition Stories, an internationally recognized author, speaker, and social visionary who looks beneath the surface turbulence of our times to explore the deeper trends transforming our world. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2006, he […]
Gregg Braden
Gregg Braden is a five-time New York Times best-selling author, scientist, educator and pioneer bridging science, social policy and human potential who, from 1979 to 1991, worked as a problem solver during times of crisis for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco Systems, where he became the first Technical Operations Manager leading development of the global […]
Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned through his leadership of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his direction, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, […]
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone is a pioneering author, Jungian psychotherapist, and leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement who brings together Kabbalah, depth psychology, and the re-integration of feminine wisdom traditions within Judaism. Raised in an Orthodox home in St. Louis and sister to radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, Rabbi Tirzah embarked on a spiritual odyssey that […]